Tipper Gore Quotes

No American parent should be forced to compete with popular culture to raise his children.

Some things I see on television, I think, 'Oh my gosh, they're showing that now?' wow.

With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement.

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

Wal-Mart went on a rampage years ago insisting all music they carry be censored of all profanity and 'clean' versions be made for them to carry.

Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Soap operas have become sex operas.

If you don't think a television news show represents the truth, you can turn off your TV. If you don't think a magazine represents the truth, you can cancel your subscription. You have the right to expose yourself to whatever information you want. But to have the government prescribing what the truth is or limiting the information available for the citizen is contrary to the 1st Amendment.

The American way is to let each family decide what they want in their homes, not somebody in Washington …. Four letter words are acceptable to some families and not acceptable to others.

Television should be regulated like a toaster.

In deciding the ratings of the films, no consideration is given to artistic, technical or dramatic values. Only moral content is weighed.

If you see anything scary on television, you can turn it off.

You should have access to ideas and information regardless of your age. If anyone is going to limit or guide a young person, it should be the parent or guardian — and only the parent or guardian.

Regardless of the strength of the government's interest [in protecting children,] the level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.

I think if people want to see pure sex in the movie, they have the Internet and the extraordinary things are available.

I'm not talking so much about sex - after you've seen sex in a picture, what else can happen - but violence is very bad. People think these are things you are allowed to do. I think they should be forbidden.

I think censorship in the name of fighting fake news is a dangerous thing for Pakistan.

I kind of grew up watching R-rated movies and more adult content because that's where all the best performances are.

I'm not against censorship in principle. Not at all. Some things should be censored.

One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.

I think we have too much violence in wrestling, on TV in general, and society as a whole.

For me personally, when I was a kid, that's like the stuff I wanted to watch - all the R-rated stuff.